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PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural Experiment Station
CIRCULAR No. 5.
LaFayette, Ind., December, 1906.
REPORT OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON THE
RANDOLPH COUNTY FARM, 1906.
By G. I. Christie.
At the annual meeting of the Randolph County Farmers' Institute, January, 1906, the subject of "County Farm Experiment
Stations" was discussed by G. I. Christie of Purdue University
Agricultural Experiment Station. Much interest in this scheme was
manifested by the farmers present and steps were at once taken to
establish some experimental work on the Randolph County Farm. A
committee composed of E. W. Hill, I. C. Reynard, W. P. Nofsinger,
G. E. Addington and I. J. Farquhar was appointed to arrange for
the carrying on of this work.
Objects op County Experiment Stations.
In every county there is much information to be obtained with
reference to the treatment of certain types of soil, varieties of corn,
grains, grasses and vegetables. The average farmer cannot afford
the time or expense to test hundreds of varieties of corn, small
grains, etc. that seem to have merit in them. Neither has he the
time to study new methods of cultivation that might be suited to
his locality. Such a procedure is next to impossible.
It is generally felt that the State Experiment Station is doing
a splendid work for the State, yet much of the data obtained at the
Station in regard to crops is necessarily local in its application to
farmers' conditions. Farmers on high priced land have for some
time realized this, and are demanding results that are applicable to
local conditions in their county or section of the State. For such
work, what better place could be devised than the County Farm?

PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Agricultural Experiment Station
CIRCULAR No. 5.
LaFayette, Ind., December, 1906.
REPORT OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON THE
RANDOLPH COUNTY FARM, 1906.
By G. I. Christie.
At the annual meeting of the Randolph County Farmers' Institute, January, 1906, the subject of "County Farm Experiment
Stations" was discussed by G. I. Christie of Purdue University
Agricultural Experiment Station. Much interest in this scheme was
manifested by the farmers present and steps were at once taken to
establish some experimental work on the Randolph County Farm. A
committee composed of E. W. Hill, I. C. Reynard, W. P. Nofsinger,
G. E. Addington and I. J. Farquhar was appointed to arrange for
the carrying on of this work.
Objects op County Experiment Stations.
In every county there is much information to be obtained with
reference to the treatment of certain types of soil, varieties of corn,
grains, grasses and vegetables. The average farmer cannot afford
the time or expense to test hundreds of varieties of corn, small
grains, etc. that seem to have merit in them. Neither has he the
time to study new methods of cultivation that might be suited to
his locality. Such a procedure is next to impossible.
It is generally felt that the State Experiment Station is doing
a splendid work for the State, yet much of the data obtained at the
Station in regard to crops is necessarily local in its application to
farmers' conditions. Farmers on high priced land have for some
time realized this, and are demanding results that are applicable to
local conditions in their county or section of the State. For such
work, what better place could be devised than the County Farm?